Thomas Mira y Lopez is the author of the essay collection The Book of Resting Places (Counterpoint, 2017) and a translator from Portuguese. His work has received fellowships and support from the National Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell, Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, and Colgate University’s Olive B. O’Connor Fellowship. A fiction editor at DIAGRAM, he lives in Iowa City, where he is a Visiting Assistant Professor in Creative Writing and Translation at the University of Iowa.